[ofa-general] Installation problem with mvapich2

[Shaun Rowland]

Chevchenkovic Chevchenkovic wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install mvapich2 on my system. So i do the following:
> 1. untar  mvapich2-0.9.8.tar.gz
> 2. go to make.mvapich2.gen2 file and set the prefix as
>   /root/chev/temp/mvapich2-0.9.8/
> 
> Then we execute the instruction as :
> ./make.mvapich2.gen2
> 
> I get the following as output:
> =========================================================
> Configuring MVAPICH2...
> Configuring MPICH2 version MVAPICH2-0.9.8 with
> --prefix=/root/chev/temp/mvapich2-0.9.8/ --enable-g=dbg
> --with-device=osu_ch3:mrail --with-rdma=gen2 --with-pm=mpd
> --disable-romio --without-mpe
> sourcing /root/chev/temp/mvapich2-0.9.8/src/pm/mpd/setup_pm
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
> C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> Configuring MPICH2 version MVAPICH2-0.9.8 with
> --prefix=/root/chev/chev/mvapich2-0.9.8/ --enable-g=dbg
> --with-device=osu_ch3:mrail --with-rdma=gen2 --with-pm=mpd
> --disable-romio --without-mpe
> sourcing /root/chev/temp/mvapich2-0.9.8/src/pm/mpd/setup_pm
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error:
> C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.
> Building MVAPICH2...
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> MVAPICH2 installation...
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> Congratulations on successfully building MVAPICH2. Please send your
> feedback to mvapich-discuss at cse.ohio-state.edu.
> ================================================
> 
> 
> What is going wrong?
> Can someone please help me in this regards?
> Awaiting some reply,

Can you look in the config.log file that is generated? It should tell
you why the C compiler cannot create executables when run by configure.
It is impossible to tell from the above output alone.
-- 
Shaun Rowland	rowland at cse.ohio-state.edu
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rowland/